Quotes by Augusten Burroughs

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Augusten Xon Burroughs is an American writer known for his New York Times bestselling memoir Running with Scissors (2002).
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I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

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When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

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I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achi...

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I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.

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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confide...

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But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

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Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.

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I love to both give and receive very old books.

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I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

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My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright ...

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I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

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I never listen to music when I write.

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Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

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With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

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There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

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Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

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Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.

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My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

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I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

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I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

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I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

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Author Bio

  • NameAugusten Burroughs
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornOctober 23, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Novelist
  • WorksRunning With Scissors
  • AwardsLambda Literary Award